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Unit 3: Development & Learning

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 28mins

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1.

In a set of studies, Ivan Pavlov first touched a dog lightly on the side of its body and a few seconds later placed vinegar on the dog’s tongue. The vinegar made the dog salivate. After several pairings of touch and vinegar, the dog began to salivate as soon as it was touched and before it was given the vinegar. In these studies which of the following was the unconditioned stimulus?

a)

Touch to the body

b)

Vinegar on the tongue

c)

Salivation to the vinegar

d)

Salivation to the touch

e)

Time interval between the touch and the vinegar

2.

Although people can acquire phobias to almost any object or situation, certain phobias (e.g., those to snakes, spiders, heights) are much more common than others. This finding can best be explained by which of the following concepts?

a)

Biological predispositions

b)

Spontaneous recovery

c)

Stimulus discrimination

d)

Stimulus generalization

e)

Observational learning

3.

Which of the following is an example of discrimination learning?

a)

A pigeon trained to peck a red key sometimes pecks an orange key.

b)

A year old calls her aunt “Mommy.”

c)

A dos still salivates to the sound of a bell after ten trials of extinction.

d)

A dog trained to salivate to a particular tone does not salivate to any other tone.

e)

A rat avoids an electric shock by responding to the light that always precedes it.

4.

Whenever Sarah’s mother answered the phone, Sarah would yell for her mother’s attention and her mother would end the phone conversation. Then Sarah’s mother began ignoring Sarah’s yelling and eventually Sarah stopped behaving that way. The change in Sarah’s behavior is an example of:

a)

Discrimination

b)

Response generalization

c)

Extinction

d)

Spontaneous recovery

e)

Systematic desensitization

5.

Which of the following best reflects contemporary interpretations of classical conditioning?

a)

They remain relatively unchanged from earlier interpretations by people like Edward Thorndike.

b)

They take into account cognitive processes like expectancy.

c)

They are in agreement with the interpretations of behaviorists like B.F. Skinner.

d)

They are primarily based on the theory of contiguity.

e)

They make a clear distinction between long-term and short-term memory.

6.

In classical conditioning, stimulus generalization occurs when an organism responds:

a)

To stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus

b)

To stimuli that are similar to the unconditioned stimulus

c)

With different types of responses to neutral stimuli

d)

To the conditioned stimulus the same way as to the unconditioned stimulus

e)

With different types of responses to the unconditioned stimulus

7.

Raul wants to teach his daughter Sonia to tie her shoes. First he praises her when she manipulates her shoelace in any way. Then he praises her when she makes a simple knot. Once she does that consistently, he praises her only when she makes a knot and a loop. He continues the pattern until she can do all the steps required to tie her shoes. Raul’s actions are an example of which of the following techniques?

a)

Modeling

b)

Shaping

c)

Classical conditioning

d)

Negative reinforcement

e)

Rehearsal

8.

Children who are consistently praised for receiving high grades in school will likely continue to work for high grades. Using an operant conditioning explanation of this phenomenon, which of the following is true?

a)

The praise functions as a positive reinforcer.

b)

The grades function as the stimulus that elicits a response

c)

The praise functions as a generalized stimulus

d)

The school functions as a negative reinforcer

e)

The grades function as a discriminant stimulus

9.

Of the following, which is essential for operant conditioning to occur?

a)

Partial reinforcement

b)

A behavioral consequence

c)

A stimulus substitution

d)

Delayed conditioning

e)

Spontaneous recovery

10.

Money most often modifies people’s behavior because it is a powerful:

a)

Negative reinforcer

b)

Secondary reinforcer

c)

Higher-order stimulus

d)

Discriminative stimulus

e)

Unconditioned stimulus

11.

A dog retrieves the newspaper every day because in the past it received a food reward for this behavior. The dog’s behavior is an example of which of the following?

a)

An operant response

b)

A discriminative stimulus

c)

An unconditioned response

d)

An unconditioned stimulus

e)

A classically conditioned response

12.

Which classic study forms the basis for social (observational) learning?

a)

John B. Watson ... Little Albert

b)

Ivan Pavlov ... Salivating dogs

c)

B. F. Skinner ... Pigeons

d)

Albert Bandura ... Bobo doll

e)

Thorndike ... Puzzle boxes

13.

When Mary was young, her father was trying to learn how to speak German and would listen to German tapes for hours in her presence. Mary paid very little attention to the tapes. Many years later, when Mary was in Germany, she was able to say a few German words in order to make herself understood. This is an example of:

a)

Latent learning

b)

Partial reinforcement

c)

Negative reinforcement

d)

Classical conditioning

e)

Retroactive interference

14.

Which of the following sets of concepts is central to social learning theory?

a)

Observation, imitation, and modeling

b)

Fixed interval, variable interval, and fixed ratio

c)

Generalization, spontaneous recovery, and discrimination

d)

Acquisition, extinction, and counter-conditioning

e)

Higher-order learning, negative reinforcement, and variable ratio

15.

Although he finds it to be difficult and not much fun, Tomas puts in long hours practicing soccer in hopes of getting an athletic scholarship to college. This best illustrates:

a)

Intrinsic motivation

b)

Extrinsic motivation

c)

Latent learning

d)

Attribution theory

e)

Catharsis

16.

Students who enjoyed solving a puzzle were rewarded for doing so. Later, they played less with the puzzle than did their counterparts who were not rewarded for the same task. This illustrates which of the following principles?

a)

Latent learning

b)

Observational learning

c)

The over-justification effect

d)

The law of effect

e)

Intermittent reinforcement

17.

A cancer patient becomes nauseated following chemotherapy treatments. After a few treatments, the patient begins having a sick feeling whenever entering the treatment room. The treatment room has become:

a)

A primary reinforcer

b)

A conditioned stimulus

c)

A conditioned response

d)

A neutral stimulus

e)

An unconditioned stimulus

18.

To stop his uncle’s constant requests, Jimmy takes out the garbage. This makes him more likely to take out the garbage in the future. Jimmy’s behavior is being controlled by which of the following types of reinforcement?

a)

Intermittent

b)

Positive

c)

Negative

d)

Vicarious

e)

Delayed

19.

A rat always completes a maze successfully but is only rewarded every third trial. The rat is being rewarded using which of the following reinforcement schedules?

a)

Fixed-interval

b)

Fixed-ratio

c)

Variable-ratio

d)

Variable-interval

e)

Continuous

20.

A radio disc-jockey randomly calls a person every day to award them a free ticket. This would be which schedule of reinforcement?

a)

Fixed-ratio

b)

Fixed-interval

c)

Variable-ratio

d)

Variable-interval

e)

Continuous

21.

Which developmental milestone must be reached before an infant experiences separation anxiety?

a)

Imprinting

b)

Theory of mind

c)

Conservation

d)

Egocentrism

e)

Object permanence

22.

Darien’s father dictated who Darien’s friends should be and what classes he should take, and he set an extremely early curfew. If Darien went against his father’s wishes, the repercussions were harsh and swift. What type of parenting did Darien experience?

a)

Permissive

b)

Rejecting-neglecting

c)

Authoritative

d)

Authoritarian

e)

Self-regulation

23.

In Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation experiment, infants who were classified as securely attached were more likely to:

a)

have a tantrum when the mother left the room

b)

express happiness when the mother returned to the room

c)

prevent the mother from leaving the room

d)

try to the play with the stranger when the mother left the room

e)

not notice when the mother returned to the room

24.

Paul and Sally, who met and married in their mid-20s, have been married for 25 years. Their youngest child recently graduated from high school and has left for college. Which of the following is most likely true of this couple?

a)

They are both experiencing a hormone surge.

b)

Sally’s hormones are declining, and Paul’s are surging.

c)

Their marital relationship will not change.

d)

Their marital relationship will decline.

e)

Their marital relationship will improve.

25.

Which of the following is the best example of fluid intelligence?

a)

Reciting the names of all the continents in the world without looking at a map

b)

Identifying the author of a very famous novel

c)

Using cubes to figure out the solution to a previously unseen puzzle

d)

Giving an adequate definition of a difficult word

e)

Recognizing a piece of classical music

26.

Which of the following is more associated with environmental effects than with genetic influence?

a)

Fetal alcohol syndrome

b)

Prenatal maturation

c)

Temperament

d)

Rooting reflex

e)

Sequence of motor development

27.

To study differences in the cognitive processing between younger and older adults, Genevieve assessed a group of 30 year olds and a group of 60 year olds using the same cognitive task. She found no significant difference in cognitive processing between the two groups. Which of the following is a true statement that best explains her findings?

a)

Researchers have not documented changes in cognitive ability over the human lifespan.

b)

Genevieve's participants were likely women, who do not decline cognitively as they age.

c)

Genevieve’s task involved semantics memory, which does not typically show decline among people of the ages she tested

d)

Most decline in cognitive ability is associated with dementia, which would not yet have occurred in the participants at age 60

e)

Genevieve’s older participants were most likely taking memory medications that prolong the ability to be proficient in cognitive tasks.

28.

In developmental psychology, one advantage of cross-sectional over longitudinal studies is that cross-sectional research:

a)

controls for cognitive ability

b)

controls for gender

c)

controls for cultural influences

d)

involves subjects of the same age

e)

requires comparatively little time

29.

When ten-month-old Frances throws her toy out of sight, she looks to see where it falls. Development psychologists would say that Frances’ behavior indicates that she has developed

a)

centration

b)

conservation

c)

egocentrism

d)

object permanence

e)

accommodation

30.

According to Erik Erikson, in late adulthood the individual reaches the eighth and final stage of the life span in which one reviews and evaluates one’s life and the choices one has made. Erikson labeled this stage

a)

initiative versus guilt

b)

integrity versus despair

c)

generativity versus stagnation

d)

identity versus role confusion

e)

Intimacy versus isolation

31.

A child’s sex is genetically determined by the

a)

mother

b)

father

c)

paternal grandmother

d)

maternal grandfather

e)

maternal grandmother

32.

The fact that imprinting is most certain to occur if the opportunity for imprinting is presented to the organism at a very specific age indicates the existence of

a)

a schema

b)

a reflex

c)

an archetype

d)

a critical period

e)

an unconscious inference

33.

Primary sex characteristics include which of the following?

a)

Deepened voice in males

b)

Breast development in females

c)

Presence of ovaries

d)

Body hair

e)

Menopause

34.

In Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, which of the following best exemplifies the concept of accommodation?

a)

A newborn touched lightly on the right cheek turns his head to the right.

b)

An infant reaches out toward the moon as if to grasp it.

c)

An infant stops reaching for a toy as soon as it is covered by a cloth.

d)

An infant acquires a fear of heights after learning to crawl.

e)

An infant trying unsuccessfully to suck her fist opens her mouth wider and is successful.

35.

Egocentrism, animism, and artificialism are characteristic of which of Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

a)

Sensorimotor

b)

Preoperational

c)

Postformal

d)

Concrete operations

e)

Formal operations

36.

Harry Harlow’s experiment with rhesus monkeys suggest which of the following as most important for infants when establishing an attachment to their mothers?

a)

The amount of time spent with the mother

b)

The mother’s ability to protect the infant from physical harm

c)

The mother’s ability to provide nourishment to the infant

d)

The tactile characteristics of the mother

e)

The particular vocalizations of the mother

37.

When a newborn is touched on the cheek, the infant will turn its head toward the source of stimulation. This behavior is known as

a)

rooting

b)

sucking

c)

the patellar reflex

d)

the Moro reflex

e)

the Babinski reflex

38.

A young child shown a nine-inch round bowl and a six-inch round bowl containing equal amounts of popcorn says he is certain the smaller bowl has more popcorn than the larger bowl. This child has yet to acquire what Jean Piaget called

a)

object permanence

b)

equilibrium

c)

functional fixedness

d)

conservation

e)

circular reactions

39.

Gender differences have most often been found in which of the following?

a)

Aggression

b)

Short-term memory

c)

Auditory discrimination

d)

Visual acuity

e)

Pattern matching

40.

Researcher Renee Baillargeon found that four-month-old infants will look longer at a ball if it appears to roll through a solid barrier, demonstrating that babies seem to grasp basic physical laws intuitively. Which of the following theories does this finding challenge?

a)

Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development

b)

Lev Vygotsky's social cognition learning model

c)

Jean Piaget theory of cognitive development

d)

Mary Ainsworth’s finding from the Strange Situation

e)

Erik Erikson’s theory of psychological development

41.

Of the following cognitive milestones which ability tends to be acquired last?

a)

Telegraphic speech

b)

Use of schemas

c)

Object permanence

d)

Hypothetical thinking

e)

Assimilation

42.

When parents set flow controls on their children’s television viewing, allowing the children freedom to set individual limits, make few demands, and do not punish for improper television viewing, the parents exemplify a parenting style referred to as

a)

permissive

b)

authoritative

c)

authoritarian

d)

rejecting-neglecting

e)

pessimistic

43.

Gender typing is best described as

a)

the realization that gender is stable, regardless of superficial behaviors such as dress

b)

a preferential interest of a female child in the attention of the mother

c)

a child showing ambivalence toward both the mother and father

d)

adolescents integrating social, sexual, intellectual, and ethical aspects into a self-identity

e)

the acquisition of the roles associated with distinctions between male and female

44.

Maturation differs from learning in that development changes due to maturation

a)

are relatively independent of environment or environmental factors

b)

follow no predictable pattern

c)

can take place only in an enriched environment

d)

cease after early childhood

e)

require practice

45.

Which of the following did Erik Erikson say was the primary conflict through which a teenager needs to work?

a)

Autonomy versus shame and doubt

b)

Initiative versus guilt

c)

Identity versus role confusion

d)

Intimacy versus isolation

e)

Generativity versus stagnation

46.

Alexandra wants to test her new baby’s Babinski reflex. To elicit the appropriate response, Alexandra will have to

a)

Stroke her baby’s cheek

b)

Press on her baby’s palm

c)

Turn her baby’s head to one side

d)

Shine a bright light in her baby’s eyes

e)

Stroke the sole of her baby’s foot